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The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09
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TMPERYAL EGG FOOD

1NtENLAiEh HNNAR WV afE"EAAA1 LRHAf ~
mote the Healthy Growth and Develop
ment Of all varieties OF poultry,
aud Insure Flint Condition
and smooth Plumage
ILwill help fheia through ntoulting wonder
mlp. It will furnish bone and muscle ioryoung
chicks, and TINS save them,
Prevents and absolutely cures the diseases
Incident to Poultry.
1HTGKEM CHOLERA
isusuals t|HefesuiE OF weakness caused by a
lack of the proper chemicals in the system,
Thesear supplied by the IMPERIAL Fee FooD.
II isno forcing process ;yeu simply give them
lie ehemieais to make eggs, at a cost of less
than one cent a week for each fowl. Ask for ii
Dir. NJ. JOHNSON, at his Drugstore.
&c. STUR1EYANT.
Manufacturer of Ground Oyster shells II all
Poultry supplies. gll, l22 VI Seihihetce
lord, Conn.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09
APRIL 9, 1887.

Ex-senator Malone is spoken of a.
the next chairman Of the Republican
National Committee. lie is an effec-
tive political organizer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09

The Newark Press, Rep. says that
s.the election of Rufus Blodget, "a
Copperhead and anti pr elective
tariff man, by Republican votes, was
the most amazing act OF political stu
pidity that Republican representatives
in New Jersey have been guilty OF
since the formation of the Republican
nartN.a
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09

One of the most extraordinary poll
tical events of modern times is the
election of a Democratic Governor III
Rhode Island and probably all the
Democrats on State ticket on Wednes-
day. Considering that about two-titths
of the voters are disqualified be
cause all foreign born citizens
mist have Sl34 worth of property
before they a vote it was an event I'M
looked for Notwithstanding there was
much discomfort over the Republican
candidate. The legislature is Repub-
licau.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09

A prominent politician in New YORK
in an address said that it cost S5o,oOo
to be nominated for Register, $4,000
for a Judgeship, $40 600 for Mayor;
and 500, 600 to S15,0 900 for District At
torney nomination in that city. The
assessments are made by the different
Halls for election purposes. If it cost
so much to get an Office where do the
officers get repaid? OF course out OF
the people and that is why most cities
are so c~orruptly governed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09
The PcnnS Grove Record

ANMDEPENDENT LOCAL NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY By
sUMMERILL & SUMMERlLL,
Editors and Propuetors
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
The Compliment Was Concealed.
sTwenty-third street,"

''Twenty-third street,
A smart young conductor on the
Third avenue Elevated railroad cried
the name of the street last evening on
an uptown train in a voice so clear
and loud that every passenger in the
car heard it. In one corner next to
the door where the smart conductor
stood old General Chambers sat. Gen
eral Chambers is known to everybody
in Harlem as a dry joker. His face is
a mask. He looked severely at the
young man for moment and said
sharply:
you haven't been long on this road,
young man?"
The conductors ears began to red
den, and the color spread to his cheeks.
He knew he had for years tried to pro-
nounce the stations faithfully, and he
felt that his efforts were unappreciated.
In tone showing that he was nettled
he began:
you're old enough, sir, to mind
your"
"Oh!' interrupted the general, 81
was going to add that you are the first
conductor that / ever heard pronounce
the stations so they could be heard,
and supposed you must be fresh on
the road. "-Nea0 York San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16

the temple at QurAeh. Early in 1881
cIrcumstantial evidence pointed to All
med Abd-er-Rasoul as the one who
knew more than he would tell. Pro-
fessor Maspero caused his arrest, and
he lay in prison at Keneh for some
months. He also suffered the basti-
nado and the browbeating of the wom-
en- repeatedly; he resisted brides. and
showed no melting mood when threat
ened with execution. His lips told no
more than the unbound tomb-and not
as much. Finally his brother Mo-
manned regarded the offer of .baks-
hish, which Professor Maspero deemed
it wise to make, as worth more to him
than any sum he might hope to realize
from future pillaging, and made
clean breast of the whole affair. How
the four brothers ever discovered the
hidden tomb has remained a family
secret On July 5, 1881, the willy
Arab conducted Herr Emil Brugsch
Bey, curator of the Bulaq Museum, to
Deir-el-Bahari and pointed out the hid
ing-place so long looked for. A long
climb it was, up the slope of the ives
tern mountain, till, after scaling
SlOett 1iiut-otout GILL, huge, 1SOldIeu
rock was found. Behind this a spot
was reached where the stones appeared
to an expert observer and tomb-search-
er to have been arranged by hand,
rather than scattered by some up
heaval of nature. There said the
sullen guide; and there the enterpris-
ing Emil Brugsch Bey, with more than
Egyptian alacrity, soon had staff of
Arabs at work hosting the loose stones
from well into which they had been
thrown. The shaft had been sunk into
the solid limestone to the depth of
about forty feet, and was about six feet
square. Before going very far, huge
palm-log was thrown across the well
and block and tackle fastened to it
to help bring up the debris. When
the bottom of the shaft was reached a
subterranean passage was found which
ran westward some twenty-four feet
and then turned directly northward,
continuing into the heart of the noun
tain straight except where broken for
about two hundred feet by an abrupt
stairway; The passage terminated in
q mortuary chamber about thirteen by
twenty-three feet in extent and barely
six feet in height. There was found
the mummy of King Pharaoh of the
Oppression, with nearly forty others
of kings, queens, princes and priests"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
Danger From House Plants.

Dr.. Salisbury found malarial fever
to be propagated among persons sleep
ing in a room in the windows of which
had been placed box of earth from
malarious soil House plants cult
waited in pots filled with malarious
earth are a constant danger. The
germs grow luxuriantly in the moist
ure and warm air of closed rooms.
DR.. Eichwald, professor of clinical
medicine in the University of St.
Petersburg, has given to the public
facts concerning a patient of his, a
lady, with malarial fever, who was
easily cured by treatment when con-
fined to her chamber, but who quickly
relapsed on remaining during the day
in her parlor. The easy cure and con-
slant relapse went on for long time.
At last the doctor, having become sus-
picious of the flower-pots, removed
them from the house, and there was
no further recurrence of the disease
Commercial Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
A Rich Plush Maker.

Mr.. s. G. Lester, the well-known
silk, plush, and velvet manufacturer of
Manningham Mills, Bradford, has
purchased the Jervauix Abbey estate,
which adjoins the Swinton Park prop
erty he purchased four years aro. He
thus becomes the possessor of a splen-
did property extending six miles in
one line, and embracing $4,000 acres
of land.
The man who, in spite of bad times,
has been making money at such a
rate that he could expend $500, 900 in
four years in land out of surplus say
ings, and think little of it, is a re-
markable illustration of what business
enterprise and inventive genius can
do, even in days when some people
think the time for making fabulous
fortunes has passed
In recent interview Mr.. Lester,
speaking of the way in which some
men made money while others did not,
and trade generally was depressed,
said:
"a man with brains can make
money at any time. It's no use pick
ing out single cases to back up view.
Look how the silk trade of the country
generally has gone to pot! / think [
can say, without any charge of ego
tism, that / stand alone. Where is
the man in England, or in the world,
who can say, as can say, that he has
spent $500, 200 in working out new
ideas?
my business life now is almost
completed, and in all likelihood
shall never take out another patent,
but some time ago l sent to my agent
for my patent-list, which I had not
seen for many years. How many
patents do you think were on it? 8
hundred and seven! All for inven-
tons in the silk and wool manufac-
ture! I don't suppose that is record
that can be beaten by anyone. / have
never gone in for anything less than
100000 year. London Court Jour
nal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
Here's an Able Story.

A hunter who has hunted and mined
from Arizona to the Yellowstone, and
who is highly esteemed for truth and
veracity, was telling me that he had
the other day made a most wonderful
discovery, and that he had seen gold
that would put the Treasury of the
United States at a discount. The dis
covery was made in the mountains not
more than ten miles from the Govern
ment bridge over Yampa River, in
Routt county, Colorado.
He said that when he was on top of
one of the mountains seen from the
bridge that he saw at the bottom of a
cliff that he was peering over that the
ground was smooth and clean, as if
deer or bear had been in the habit
of resting and summing themselves
through the heat of the early spring
days.
Being anxious to get a deer or have
fight with bear, he descended by a
circuitOus route to the foot of the cliff.
Peering cautiously around for game,
he was somewhat startled at hearing
the rattle of a snake. Looking about,
he saw large numbers of them lying
around, while there was a constant
stream of them going into round
hole in the rock near the bottom of
the cliff
Being anxious to destroy as many of
the reptiles as he possibly could, he
procured forked stick and placing
the fork over the neck of one of the
largest, he pinioned him to the ground;
then tying a half dozen sticks of giant
powder to his tail, set a slow match to
it and then let the snake go. After
seeing his snakeship 90 into the hole,
the hunter retreated to safe distance
to await developments. He did not
have long to wait. First there was a
slight trembling of the ground, then a
burst that shook the mountain like an
earthquake, and with that burst the
whole side of the cliff toppled off and
fell to the ground, and up went more
snakes than was ever thought of by
either CULVER or Baron Munchausen.
The face of the rock was honey
combed with round holes, out of which
snakes were pouring like water
through knot hole as long as the
hunter stayed, and he stayed long
enough to see many thousands seeth-
ing and kissing in their rage and
agony, when he became weary of the
sight and left, but not until he had
seen that the whole face of the cliff
was covered with solid gold. -Denver
Trib2lge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
For Better for Worse.

Every woman who takes upon her
self the ''holy estate"-and it is indeed
holy-.'of matrimony' has to learn
soon or late-happy if she learn it
Soon-that no two human beings can
be tied together for life without finding
endless difficulties, not only in the
world outside. but in each other.
These have to be solved, and generally
by the wife, says writer in the Con-
temporary Reciea0 for May. She must
have a strong heart, a sweet temper,
an unlimited patience, and, above all,
power to see the right, and do it, not
merely for the love of man-@'aS Sarah
obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord"
Ca state of things belonging to polyg-
amous and nota Christian community
but for the love of God, which alone
can tide an ill-assorted couple over the
rocks and quicksands of early married
life into a calm sea and prosperous
voyage.
| state this, that if what ] am about
to say be somewhat iconoclastic it
should be clearly seen that wage war
against false idols and not against true
gods. And write, not for those whose
matrimonial lot is the average one,
neither very happy nor very misera-
bic, who, having made their bed, must
lie upon it and make the best of it, but
for those whose lot has turned out-as
the man said of his bad wife-''all
worse and no BETTER" who are tied
and bound, not always by their own
fault, with a CHASTITY chain the iron of
which enters their very soul, and from
which they have no hope of escape but
death.
The question l wish to raise is, how
long a woman should endure the chain;
how far she may irighteously put up
with the husband whom, under what.
ever circumstances, she has taken ''for
better for worse" and found hopeless
ly ''worse." The opposite question. as
to how a good man should deal with a
bad wife, | do not enter into. Men
are the Lawmakers, and can be trusted
to take care of themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
TO be continued.
The last of The Smugglers.
london truth.

The last of the old Highland smugglers
has just died at Monar, in the remote
mountain recesses of Ross shire. This
was Alexander McRae, who carried on an
active and highly profitable trade in Illicit
distillation for many years, and as he
lived at place which was almost inacces-
sible in winter, he was not much troubled
by the excise officers, and always had
warning of their approach. McRae devot-
ed himself during the greater part of the
year to the congenial work of mailing,
brewing and distilling, and his whiskey
obtained very high reputation, SO that
he accumulated what was considerable
fortune for man in his position. In
summer McRae was in the habit of max
ing raids into the deer forests around,
and a more cunning paocher never was
known in the country. He died at
great age, and his burial Was characters
tic. Twenty years ago he thought it ex-
pedient to make due provision for his
obsequies, and cask of his very best
whiskey was then disposited with due
selemnity in a peat moss, there to re-
main till his death. When the morning
of the funeral arrived the casK was open
ed, and as the procession made its slow
progress across tho mountains to the
Kirkyard of Kintall, the mourners and
clansmen carried out the oft-expressed
wishes of their departed friend by con-
Stunning no less then eighteen gallons of
this grand old whiskey, and the coffin
finally deposited in the grave with full
Highland honors. McRae had stopped
the illicit operation of his ''sma" nearly
twenty years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
Finding Pharaoh.

In a recent number of the Century
are two profusely illustrated articles
under the above caption describing the
discovery Of Pharaoh's tomb and pict-
uring its contents, From the first ar
tlcle by Mr.. Wilson, the photographer,
we quote this account Of the way in
which the tomb was located: I'm a
line of tombs beyond the Ramesseum
lived four sturdy Arabs named Adder.
Rasonl. They supplied guides and
donkeys to tourists who desired to visit
the ruins of Thebes, and sold them
genuine and spurious antiques. When
they found a mummy, it being forbid
den by law to sell it, the head and
hands and feet were wrenched off and
sold on the sly, while the torso was
kicked about the ruined temples until
the jackals came and carried it away.
l purchased head and hand of one of
the brothers amid the dark shadows Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
Changes at Princeton College.

PRINCETON, N. j., June 1.-THE faculty
of Princeton college for the last few
weeks has been considering what should
be done in regard to the numerous
new branches which have been and
still are being introduced into the cur
riculum OF the college. After carefal de-
liberation the conviction was reached that
ell these cannot be brought into the col
lege proper, therefore they have to come
to the unanimous conclusion that they
must organize post graduate and uni
versity courses to be consummated in the
university degrees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16

The Rev. Robert Collyer of New
York, at meeting of the Baptist So
cial Union, used the following Ian
guage, which by many clergymen will
be considered rank heresy: 1.-The
newspapers of the day are more wide
ly and faithfully read than the Bible,
and they are doing a noble work in
graphing with corruption. If you
will promise me not to tell any one, /
will tell you that read my newspaper
Sunday. After l eat my breakfast
Sunday morning, l read my news
paper, and then look over my sermon
to see if can improve it"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16
Meeting an Emergency.

MY DEAR" said fond father to his
fashionable daughter, who is soon to
be married, eff George should at some
future time meet with reverses and his
fortune should be swept away, which
occasionally occurs to silver-mine spec
ulators, could you meet the emergen-
cy? Could you, for instance, go into
the kitchen and make loaf of bread ~
What foolish papa" replied the
dear girl, brightly; why, / would
send to the bakers for it. "-Neac York
Sur.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16

A curious geological phenomenon
exists in the vicinity of Behring's
strait. At Elephant point, Kotzbue
sound, ridge two miles wide and $50
feet high seems to be vast mass of
ice, thinly covered with clay and veg
etable mold. In this soil birches,
alder, and berry-bearing plants grow
luxuriantly, with the stratum of per-
petual ice as the underlying rock
within less than foot from their
roots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-16

Walt Williams was 6S last Tuesday. He
is almost wholly disabled in walking pow
or and bodily movements, and spends
most of his time in big arm chair, read
ing and writing. Sidnsy Morse is sculp-
turing him from life as he thus sits in his
chair, and visitors and old friends fire.
quently call to see ''ths good, gray poet"
The red sandstone quarry, about six
miles from Baraboo, lately purchased by
Chicago parties is now being worked by
about so men.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17
Strong in His FetOes.
Springfield Republican,

The President has vetoed more
pension bills than any other Pres
ident or all other Presidents, per-
haps, put together. But he has al
so signed more pension bills than
any one !; and he has signed pen
sion bills to a larger amount in two
years than any President ever sign
ed in the same time. When he has
vetoed, he has vetoed for the same
reason that he vetoed numerous
bills for needless public buildings
because he deems it his const =
tutional duty to stand between the
treasury and the prevailing ten
dency of people to seek support
from the government without re-
gard to whether the outlay can be
justified. His course in this re-
spect commends itselfto every nan
of prudence in his own expendi-
ture, and who is capable of realiz-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17


The amounts appropriated by
the appropriation bills passed at
the last session of Congress are as
follows: Agricultural bill, 81 ,O28,-
$50; army, $13,724,718.69; diplo-
matte and consular, 81 ,429,242.14;
District of Columbia, $4,265,S90,-
66; Indian, 1926, S97.e sc ; legisla-
tive, executive and judicial, $780,
7o1, 221.67; Military Academy,
s419,936.93 navy. $25,753,16444;;
pensions, $76,252,5 800; post office,
s65;694,65O.15; sundry civil, $22,-
232,49O.96; Mexican pension def
cheney, 100000; public printing
deficiency, $107, 900; miscellaneous
appropriations, $s,500,0O0; total
actual appropriations, $247,3s7,-
144.3O. The River and Harbor
bill, which was not signed, appro-
priated $9,s13.sOO, and the General
Deficiency bill, which did not pass
although agreed upon in confer
ence, carried an appropriation of
$4,275,O23.66.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17

A convention of railroad agents
at Chicago, have decided that the
Interstate Commerce law does not
forbid excursion rates, or the issu-
ing of mileage or accommodation
passenger tickets, but such tickets
and rates must be the same to all
persons. 1t permits reduced rates
to preachers and railway employees.
Mileage tickets may be sold but at
the same rates to all. Thousand
mile tickets may be sold at d
cents a mile-open to purchase by
any ono.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17
Honorable journalism.

With the private lives of officials
we have nothing to do, but with the
peoples business, whether it is the
department of streets that needs
discussion or the overriding of a
convention, there shall never be
any hesitancy on our part to state
the facts. If, through inadvertence,
we make any misstatements the
vilest citizen of the town can have
the use of our columns for a cor
rection. All the "infuence" with
the paper any man need command
is the manliness to walk into the
Office and say frankly, "You have
wronged me-" The duty to set such
a wrong right has always been con-
sidered a pressing one with this
paper and has never yet been ig-
nored.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17
Butler Co. Democrat.

If a newspaper wilfully misrep-
resents a man in either public or
private life, it should not be trust
ed in any particular. But if it
knowingly or Intentionally misrep-
resents him, or abuses him, there
are legal remedies at hand which
may be employed to right the
wrong. Or to go somewhat further,
if the editor of a newspaper finds
that he has published a wrong
statement concerning any man or
action, if he is a man in the strict
sense of the word, he will make
public acknowledgement of the
wrong he has done and try the ut
most to repair the injury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17

the sessions of the f%orty-ninth con-
gress there were introduced into
the house 1928 bills and 263
Joint resolutions on which over
five thousand reports were made,
there peing several thousand more
reports than were made in the for
ty-eighth congress, which had ins
its turn beaten the record. In the
senate there were introduced 1857;
bills and 118 joint resolutions on
which 1888 written reports were
made, being upward of 500 more
bills and over 400 more reports
than in the forty-eighth congress.
The total number of laws enacted
was approximately" 1891 of which
1858 originated in the house and
1913 in the senate. Two hundred
and sixty-four Of these became
laws by expiration of the consti-
tutional 1O-days limitation. Fifty
bills failed to become laws owing
to the adjournment of congress,
nine of them at the close of the
first session.
There we're 1872 bills vetoed by
the president, or 81 more instances
of the exercise of the presidential
prerogative of the veto than had
occurred from the foundation of
the government down to the be-
ginning of this congress. But one
private bill, that granting a pen
sion to Joseph Romeiser, and one
public bill, namely, that providing
for the erection of a government
building at Dayton, O., succeeded
in passing both houses over the
presidents veto, although several
others obtained the requisite two
thirds in the senate only to fail il
the house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-17

Grave charges of the use of mo
ney in connection with the recent
senatorial election in New York,
whereby Frank Hiscock was elect
ed over Senator Miller, are being
made. A resolution to investigate
was unanimously voted down by
the Republican members of the
State Assembly. 1t is openly charg-
ed that one man handled $4,000
of the Hiscock-Morton DOODLE
These are serious charges against
the god and morality party.